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A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.
You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

— Lance Armstrong Every Second Counts (2003)

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Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.

Every Second Counts (2003)

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.

By fight I mean arm yourself with all the available information, get second opinions, third opinions, and fourth opinions.

How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Every Second Counts (2003)

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

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